[maemo-developers] Nokia and MS

[From: Ian Stirling]

Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Sivan Greenberg <sivan at omniqueue.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Andre Klapper <aklapper at openismus.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 13:25 -0500, Demetris wrote:
>>>> How does this affect the future of Maemo on Nokia's devices?


> I've three hats to wear:

I only have one hat. :(

> But there is a benefit to this that I can see. With no clear successor
> for the N900, some people will keep theirs for a bit longer, others -
> who may have been waiting for the Harmattan device - may now buy one.
> This means the Community SSU can have more users, more developers and
> more polish:
> 
>     http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_SSU


The graph on http://www.flickr.com/cameras/nokia/n900/ would seem to
indicate that n900 use is crashing.

 From one point of view this is depressing.
 From another viewpoint, users who have 'upgraded' after 12 months with
the n900 may dump their phones on ebay. And the non-hardcore were not
to some degree the 'important' userbase for things like CSSU.

And as it's a 'dead' platform, it may be fairly cheap. There are many
semi-interested hackers that haven't been able to justify a
comparatively expensive phone.

Added to the promise of the CSSU, and related efforts, as well as the
increasing potential freedom both from reverse engineered bits, as well
as documentation that should have been found ages ago, but for various
reasons hasn't been - and code 'newly' released for meego - the platform
could be an interesting one for hackers for some time to come.

Even in the absence of a nice shiny new meego phone.

I had aspirations to fly concorde one day - if only once.
The closest I came was hearing the sonic boom, as it zoomed on its
last flight past the east coast of Scotland.